it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling along, doesn t it? so, it s not quite, i don t think, necessarily yet at the kind of, the obvious comparisons for the daily telegraph is expenses, mps expenses the best part of 15 years ago. it is generating a lot of news, loads and loads of pick up in lots of different news organisations but it isn t necessarily the top story everywhere, every day for days and days on end but they have got shedload
it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling along, doesn t it? so, it s not quite, i don t think, necessarily yet at the kind of, the obvious comparisons for the daily telegraph is expenses, mps expenses the best part of 15 years ago. it is generating a lot of news, loads and loads of pick up in lots of different news organisations but it isn t necessarily the top story everywhere, every day for days and days on end but they have got shedloads of stuff
heard her critique of that process, that sense from her that she thinks it s going to be too long winded. now, today is world book day, as many parents will have experienced and as i have seen many parents talking about on social media today, so we managed to rope in a real life author to come and talk to us. it is former children s laureate and broadcaster michael rosen, who is here. hello, michael! hello! so, i am an author specimen for today! well, i mean, your latest book, getting better, has a lot of medical stuff in it because there is a lot that your recovery from covid, so specimen is almost. quite appropriate! quite an appropriate word, yeah. how are you feeling these days? very good. i am very glad you re on my right hand side because i can t really see with this eye. right. and i can t really hear with that ear but with these cans on it s fine. but they got knocked out micro bleeds in my brain as a consequence covid. because we have heard so much, haven t we, in the last few
but that, as a lasting legacy of covid, is really quite something. yes. so, to be technical about it if we are going to medical, so when or if the covid virus gets into the bloodstream, then one of the cells that it attacks is the cells that prevent your blood from clotting, because you should only clot when you are exposed to oxygen. so if you attack those cells, you being the virus, then you start clotting and so that is why in the very early stages people were dying from heart attacks, strokes, embolisms, aneurysms and so on and further down the line these clots can go down into the capillaries. and so capillaries were bursting and in my case, in my toes as well, so when i woke up after being in an induced coma for 40 days, i looked down at my toes and there were these kind of red blobs because i had lost my toenails and lost the feeling in my toes, as well. tell us about that moment of waking up. i have cheated, actually,